Original French WWI 2nd Model Barbed Wire Destruction Grenade - Pétard de Destruction pour Barbelés Multi Nation Flags perhaps as the result of

perhaps as the result of a police action which resulted in the helmet being discharged from service

which look to have the single bar for a First Lieutenant

The molded composition grips are quite lovely

The wood stock is in goo condition

and he died in 1801

Original French WWI 2nd Model Barbed Wire Destruction Grenade - Pétard de Destruction pour Barbelés Multi Nation Flags perhaps as the result ofOriginal Item: Only One Available. A very scarce WWI Hand Grenade, offered in Inert, BATF compliant, condition, and the first of which we have ever offered. Previously we had an example of the smaller 1st model, but this is the larger 2nd model French WWI Barbed Wire Destruction Grenade, known in French as the Ptard de Destruction pour Barbels. These were made with the intention of clearing gaps in enemy barbed wire entanglements. The explosive rod